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Creatine

Creatine is a naturally occurring substance that is a key to building powerful skeletal muscle – biceps, triceps, pecs and more. Creatine is one of the most widely used sport supplements today, primarily used in strength and bulk exercises that improve performance in high-intensity sports, maximize workouts, and provide an edge in anaerobic athletics. Unlike other types of sport and performance enhancing supplements that trend in their popularity, creatine has continued to prove over and over that it does exactly what you want it to do – build bigger, faster, and stronger muscles.

Creatine broke into the athletic world in 1993, and has since enjoyed a nearly uninterrupted surge in use. Interest in creatine grew substantially following the 1992 Summer Olympics, where some athletes went well beyond their competitors, and later reported that they had used creatine to supplement their training routines. Since creatine is natural there are no restrictions on its use among athletes.

Creatine is a naturally occurring amino acid manufactured in the body, and also ingested through a high-protein diet. The liver and kidneys produce small amounts of creatine with a meat diet, particularly game and tuna, allowing natural creatine to be readily available to skeletal muscles, biceps, triceps, pecs and all other muscles that form the structure of the body. If massive muscle gains are the goal, these natural sources are not enough.

In muscle growth and generating bodily energy for movement, creatine plays a central function in the complex muscle contraction process to maximize muscle energy. Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) is a key fuel for muscle contraction, the repetitive exercises that are performed during bodybuilding. The higher the level of ATP available to the muscles, the greater the energy output created to power bodybuilding and enhance performance in explosive sports, such as sprinting, rowing, and bodybuilding. Normal levels of ATP allow you only a few seconds of high-intensity energy.

Early studies show that creatine is able to aid in diseases such as Huntington’s disease. In one study creatine helped to lessen brain atrophy. Other studies have shown that creatine can improve fluid intelligence and other cognitive functions, and has also been found to improve the cognitive function of elderly people.